Diego is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Diego isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Diego ranks 127. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 18 were named Diego. In the entire USA, approximately 115,962 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Diego. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
There are currently two competing interpretations for the Spanish name Diego. The name could be a variant of Jacob, which means ‘God may protect’ and is of Hebrew origin. According to another reading, the origin of the name lies in the Norman name ‘Didacus’, which means ‘saint’.
A Hood Island giant tortoise... is named Diego. He is thought to have been hatched in the 1910s and was captured around 1930. In June 2020, Diego was released into the wild.
Diego Armando Maradona Franco (1960-2020)
Nicknamed »El Pibe de Oro« (»The Golden Boy«) Maradona is considered one of the best soccer players in history. He celebrated the greatest successes of his club career with SSC Napoli, including the club's first league titles in 1987 and 1990 and winning the UEFA Cup in 1989. He captained the Argentinian national team to their second World Cup victory in Mexico in 1986. There he also scored two of the most famous goals in soccer history in a 2-1 win over England in the quarter-finals. Firstly by deflecting a high ball into the goal with his hand, known as the »hand of God«, and then scoring the World Cup goal of the century after dribbling some 60 meters.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660)
Usually referred to as »Diego Velázquez« he was one of the most important portrait painters of his time. As a painter at the court of the Spanish King Philip IV, he created portraits of numerous members of the royal family and members of the court. Velázquez produced many paintings of art-historical significance. Probably the most famous one by his hand is »Las Meninas« from 1656. From the early 19th century onwards, Velázquez's work was an inspiration for many artists, his works influenced Francisco de Goya and the Impressionist Édouard Manet, among others.
Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander (* 1979)
The mexican actor rose to fame for his role as Cassian Andor in the movie »Rogue One: A Star Wars Story« as well as the Disney+ series »Andor«. The latter one brought him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a television series drama.
Don Diego de la Vega aka »Zorro«
»Zorro« is an American novel character whose real identity is Don Diego de la Vega. Johnston McCulley invented the »avenger of the poor« with a black mask and cape. First published in 1919 the story has been made into several films since the 1920s.
When you hear the name Diego, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Diego? Are you also called Diego? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is the name of a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California.
The »Cap San Diego« is a museum ship docked at the Überseebrücke in the port of Hamburg, Germany. The motor ship is the largest operational museum cargo ship in the world.
is the largest atoll by land area in the Chagos Archipelago. In 2019, the International Court of Justice declared the UK's claim to the archipelago to be unlawful.
This is a real surprise! Diego is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2006, it reached its best rank at #54 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Diego much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Diego was observed for the first time ever in 1887, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2006, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 8,422 times. Whether this beautiful boys' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Diego was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Diego ranked #124 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 2,958 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Diego will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Diego is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Diego and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Diego, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Igloo
Elephant
Goat
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Diego
Diego
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Diego sounds like this:
